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Akiko Yajima

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Akiko Yajima scrap

  • Akiko Yajima is a Korean-to-Japanese translator based in Tokyo. Her translations include AlmondCounterattacks at ThirtyPrism, and Tube by Won-pyung Sohn, The Nation of the Blind by Kim Ae-ran and others, Tangerine Green by Cho Nam-joo, I Will Cross Time for You and Girl Who Wants to Kill by Lee Kkoch-nim, and Biscuit by Kim Sun-mi. She won the Japan Booksellers’ Award for Translated Fiction in 2020 and 2022.